Category: Students

Rajal Sharma E-mail: Department: Pharmaceutical Sciences Advisor: Vladimir Torchilin Biography I was born and raised in Queens, NY until moving out to Boston for college. I have not regretted the decision. I am having a great time while learning as much as I can from the amazing faculty here. I hope to pursue a career…

Joseph Wang E-mail: Department: Pharmaceutical Sciences Advisor: Sri Sridhar Biography I was born and grew up in Taiwan, and moved to Los Angeles in junior high, and also finished high school and college undergrad in LA. I came to Boston for master of Biotechnology program, and I have realized Boston is a Biotechnology town. My…

Robin Ortiz E-mail: Department: Pharmaceutical Sciences Advisor: Barbara Waszczak Biography As a junior Behavioral Neuroscience undergraduate student with a strong background in pharmacy, I came to pursue the IGERT fellowship after beginning work in the field of nanotechnology. I had my first exposure to laboratory experience in the organic chemistry lab of Dr. Eriks Rozners…

Rose DiBella E-mail: Department: Pharmaceutical Sciences Advisor: Sri Sridhar Biography Projects Synthesis of Cobalt Iron Oxide Nanoparticles…

Marshall Brooks E-mail: Department: Pharmaceutical Sciences Advisor: Biography Projects An Analysis of the Effect of PEG on Physical Properties of Cationic Liposomes Intended for Gene Therapy…

Carol Kycia E-mail: Department: Pharmaceutical Sciences Advisor: Biography Projects Nanoparticulate carriers for Mitochondrial Gene Therapy: Optimization of Non-radioactive DNA probe labeling and detection kit analysis of Mitochondrial Transcription by Northern blotting…

Sherrica Tai E-mail: Department: Pharmaceutical Sciences Advisor: Sri Sridhar Biography Projects Surface Modification Techniques for Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Presentations Surface Modified Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications, Sherrica Tai, Dattatri Nagesha, Srinivas Sridhar, Northeastern University Research and Scholarship Expo 2007, Boston, MA, Mar 2007…

Jeffrey Patenaude E-mail: Department: Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Advisor: Shashi Murthy Biography My project utilizes nanotechnology to detect cancer on the cellular level. Through the use of nanoparticles, white blood cells can be captured from whole blood and analyzed to reveal if cancer is present….

Kathryn Portale E-mail: Department: Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Advisor: Jeffrey Ruberti Biography I am a first year masters student concentrating in the field of mechanics and design. Through my cooperative education experiences as an undergraduate at Northeastern, I was always fascinated by the biomedical field. As a graduate student, I am fortunate enough to work…

Casey Marques E-mail: Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisor: Charles Di Marzio Biography Nanoparticle Diffusion Through Skin Abstract Nanoparticles have a variety of uses in the biomedical fields. We use confocal reflectance microscopy and 2-photon fluorescence microscopy to study the behavior of gold nanoparticles of various sizes (2-40nm), mainly how they diffuse through the layers…